Fokko Veegens

About

I am an ALM Consultant at Delta-N BV The Netherlands (http://www.delta-n.nl). On a daily basis I help teamleads, developers, testers and architects to optimize their processes and the usage of Microsoft (ALM) tooling.

Experiences around my work as a DevOps consultant

Tag: Release Management

You might have already come across this acronym; ARA (Application Release Automation). As part of DevOps practices, this is not only the process of automating the actual installation of an application (landscape), but also involves moving the application through the deployment pipeline (e.g. dev > test > acc > prod).

Yesterday and today some big news was quite silently launched and published on the VS ALM blog which I’d like to share, because I think these kind of changes will make a huge difference in the daily life of software producing companies; Continue reading →

Although, for Release Management, Microsoft is focusing on agentless deployments, quite a lot of early-adopters are still bound to deployments using the Microsoft Deployment Agent. Debugging problems with these deployments is sometimes hard, because the error messages are not always descriptive for the actual problem. Continue reading →